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Dify vs Ragas

A side-by-side breakdown to help you pick the right tool for your workflow.

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Dify

Build and orchestrate LLM applications and agentic workflows with visual workflow design, RAG, and knowledge-base management — open source with 139,000+ GitHub stars.

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freemium
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Ragas

Score RAG and agent outputs on faithfulness and context relevance, and generate synthetic test datasets when none exist — free open-source, maintained by Vibrant Labs (formerly ExplodingGradients).

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free
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Bottom Line

Dify edges ahead on rating (4.7 vs 4.4), but the right pick still comes down to which workflow you're running.

Choose Dify if…

Chatbot Development

Choose Ragas if…

Developer Tools

AttributeDifyRagas
CategoryDeveloper ToolsDeveloper Tools
Pricingfreemiumfree
Pricing DetailFree Sandbox / $59/mo Professional / $159/mo TeamFree and open source (Apache 2.0)
Rating4.74.4

Key Features

Dify

  • Visual workflow editor
  • RAG pipeline builder
  • Multi-model support
  • Built-in observability
  • API and webhook integration
  • Self-hostable

Ragas

  • RAG-specific metrics
  • Faithfulness and relevancy scoring
  • Synthetic test data generation
  • Framework integrations

Pros

Dify

  • Visual editor dramatically reduces development time
  • Strong open-source community and active development
  • Works with any major LLM provider

Ragas

  • Purpose-built for RAG eval
  • Actionable metrics
  • Open source

Cons

Dify

  • Complex workflows can become difficult to debug
  • Cloud pricing jumps significantly beyond free tier

Ragas

  • Focused only on evaluation
  • Needs reference setup

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